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Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique
Squarcina, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2022
children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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Supermarkets and the nutrition transition in Kenya
Rischke, Ramona; Chege Kimenju, Simon; Qaim, Matin; … - 2014
Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy … consequences of the nutrition transition have been expanding waistlines and surging rates of nutrition-related non …-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected …
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Exploring the role of individual food security in the assessment of population's food safety
Bobe, Magdalena; Procopie, Roxana; Bucur, Mihaela - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 347-360
Ensuring a sufficient level of food for the population in both quantitative and qualitative terms is a priority for most countries as well as for governmental and non-governmental bodies – be they national, regional or international. The United Nations (UN) stresses the fact that one of the...
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Food security perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa
Popp, József; Oláh, Judit; Kiss, Anna; Lakner, Zoltán - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 361-376
The state of global food security has been considerably improved in the last decades; however, these achievements are attributable to the “green revolutions” in Latin-America and Asia. The food shortage has remained persistent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the proliferation of...
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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
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Health's kitchen : TV, edutainment and nutrition
Principe, Francesco; Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Does media exposure affect health behaviours? And how? We exploit the idiosyncratic switchover to digital television across Italian regions which exogenously increased the number of free view national channels and we link this to high-frequency data on the supply of food-related contents on the...
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Supermarket food purchases and child nutritional outcomes in Kenya
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Demmler, Kathrin M.; Klasen, … - 2018
. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are …
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed … supermarkets causes improvements in dietary quality. The results underline that supermarkets influence nutrition in multiple ways …
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Thought for food : understanding educational disparities in food consumption
Koç, Hale; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
Higher educated individuals are healthier and live longer than their lower educated peers. One reason is that lower educated individuals engage more in unhealthy behaviours including consumption of a poor diet, but it is not clear why they do so. In this paper we develop an economic theory of...
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Maternal Employment and Household Food Production : Implications for Nutrition and Obesity
Ben-Shalom, Yonatan - 2014
This paper explores the mechanisms through which maternal employment affects the quality of household nutrition and the … away from home. This substitution of money for time in food consumption can have detrimental effects on the nutrition of …
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